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Understandability is the concept that a system should be presented so that an engineer can easily comprehend it. The more understandable a system is, the easier it will be for engineers to change it in a predictable and safe manner. A system is understandable if it meets the following criteria: complete, concise, clear, and organized.

Featured in Architecture & Design

Sonali Sharma and Shriya Arora describe how Netflix solved a complex join of two high-volume event streams using Flink. They also talk about managing out of order events and processing late arriving data, exploring keyed state for maintaining large state, fault tolerance of a stateful application, strategies for failure recovery, data validation batch vs streaming, and more.

Featured in Culture & Methods

Tim Cochran presents research gathered from ThoughtWorks' varied clients and projects, and shows some of the metrics their teams have identified as guides to creating the platform and the culture for high performing teams.

No REST - Architecting Real-Time Bulk Async APIs

Summary

Michael Uzquiano talks about how to scale API to accept many items. He examines how to evolve the Evolution of ReST over HTTP to transactional, asynchronous bulk operations. He covers job descriptors, workers, the job queue and scaling workers across an API cluster elastically. He also talks about polling methods for job completion including HTTP long polling and WebSockets.

Bio

Michael Uzquiano is Founder and CTO of CloudCMS and Alpaca.js Committer.

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